{"id":2418734,"date":"2025-04-01T22:52:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T02:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-zeldin-shows-us-inside-of-embarrassing-4-million-epa-museum-no-wonder-he-shut-it-down\/"},"modified":"2025-04-01T22:54:02","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T02:54:02","slug":"watch-zeldin-shows-us-inside-of-embarrassing-4-million-epa-museum-no-wonder-he-shut-it-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-zeldin-shows-us-inside-of-embarrassing-4-million-epa-museum-no-wonder-he-shut-it-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Zeldin Shows Us Inside of Embarrassing $4 Million EPA Museum &#8211; No Wonder He Shut It Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwatch-zeldin-shows-us-inside-of-embarrassing-4-million-epa-museum-no-wonder-he-shut-it-down%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2418734&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>In a recent appearance on Fox News&#8217; &#8220;The Ingraham Angle,&#8221; Lee Zeldin, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), criticized the agency&#8217;s museum, which he plans to close. The museum, built at a cost of $4 million, is described as small and ideologically biased, focusing on topics like climate change and environmental justice. Zeldin pointed out that its displays unjustly skipped from the Obama to the Biden administrations while ignoring aspects of Trump&#8217;s time in office. He characterized the museum&#8217;s content as politically motivated and questioned the rationale behind its funding. Concluding his segment, Zeldin stated that shutting down the museum would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rick-santorum-its-time-to-invest-in-real-infrastructure\/\" title=\"Rick Santorum: It&#039;s Time to Invest in Real Infrastructure\">save taxpayer dollars<\/a> and expressed a commitment to eliminating what he called \u201cpartial, biased\u201d representations of EPA history.The segment featured humorous exchanges between Zeldin and host Laura Ingraham,reflecting on what they viewed as wasteful government spending on ideologically driven projects.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump&rsquo;s Cabinet officials should do more of this: Taunt liberals as they shut down their government projects.<\/p>\n<p>Monday on Fox News&rsquo; &ldquo;The Ingraham Angle,&rdquo; Lee Zeldin, Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, took host Laura Ingraham and her viewers on a tour of an expensive, seldom-visited, and ideologically-driven EPA museum that he plans to close.<\/p>\n<p>The pathetic little museum cost taxpayers $4 million.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re in one room that is less than 1,600 square feet,&rdquo; Zeldin said at the beginning of a clip posted to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-new-acting-attorney-general-jeff-rosen-recently-wrote-an-essay-on-foreign-influence-in-us-elections-this-tells-us-a-little-about-his-knowledge-of-whats-going-on-today\/\" title=\"The New Acting Attorney General Jeff Rosen Recently Wrote an Essay on Foreign Influence in US Elections \u2013 This Tells Us A Little About His Knowledge of What\u2019s Going On Today\">social media platform<\/a> X.<\/p>\n<p>Then, he highlighted the museum&rsquo;s ideological nature.<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} else { \t\t\t\tdocument.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\", function() { \t\t\t\t\tfunction loadScript(src) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst script=document.createElement(\"script\"); 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he said.<\/p>\n<p>Ingraham laughed as Zeldin moved to the next display, yet another &ldquo;tribute to environmental justice.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>He characterized the Biden-era <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/biden-administration-give-unprecedented-15-billion-climate-change-handout-california-company-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">climate-change<\/a> obsession as little more than classic political graft.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Over the course of this last administration, all this talk about environmental justice and climate change &mdash; it was really to justify giving out tens of billions of dollars to their friends through self-dealing, conflicts of interest, [and] unqualified recipients,&rdquo; he told Ingraham.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, Zeldin announced the good news.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re shutting this museum down,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;The taxpayer wins. Enough of this partial, biased, EPA history.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I announced today that this one-room, $4M Biden EPA shrine to climate change and environmental justice is officially closed! Almost nobody visited this 1.<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">6k sq ft museum<\/a>. I&rsquo;ll take EVERY step possible to save precious tax dollars. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ub4u7oB5pv\">pic.twitter.com\/Ub4u7oB5pv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Lee Zeldin (@epaleezeldin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/epaleezeldin\/status\/1906878630505914386?\">April 1, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Corrupt agents of the federal government, of course, do exactly as Zeldin described. They <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-caught-lying-about-buy-american-plagiarizing-president-trump\/\" title=\"Biden caught lying about \u2018Buy American\u2019, plagiarizing President Trump\">spend taxpayer money<\/a> on projects that cannot possibly justify the expenditure. Then, as if by miracle, they and their friends <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/americas-15-wealthiest-counties-voted-2024-presidential-election-tells-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">somehow grow rich<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This fact, among others, has given rise to some of history&rsquo;s most humorous quips.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself,&rdquo; literary legend Mark Twain once <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/books\/edition\/Suppose_You_Were_an_Idiot\/it9RvgAACAAJ?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trumps-wh-meeting-ronald-reagan-40-years-ago-proved-prophetic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ronald Reagan<\/a> had a similar view of government as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I think you all know that I&rsquo;ve always felt the nine most terrifying words in the English language are: &lsquo;I&rsquo;m from the Government, and I&rsquo;m here to help,&rsquo;&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reaganlibrary.gov\/archives\/speech\/presidents-news-conference-23\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reagan<\/a> said in 1986.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, Zeldin scoffed and Ingraham laughed as the EPA administrator conducted the tour.<\/p>\n<p>What else can one do when confronted by such waste in the form of paeans to liberals&rsquo; cult science? 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